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“I decided to look at the future so I could create a positive image,” Malika Favre says, about her cover for the Tech Issue. “When you read about women sharing their experiences in a field that is so dominated by males, it can get pretty depressing. For me, it’s obvious that the solution has to start from a young age, with education and the games kids play.”

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“I like to loiter around the city looking for interesting things,” the artist Jenny Kroik says. Her painting for this week’s cover depicts another loiterer at the Strand Bookstore, a beloved institution in lower Manhattan.

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‘Tis the season. A cover by Garrett Price, from 1942. Follow us on Instagram for more throwbacks.

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From a 1947 LIFE essay by the great Margaret Bourke-White about India - “ANIMALS—They play an important part in India’s Hindu religion). This image was featured with the following caption: "Elephant has three parallel stripes above trunk to denote sect of temple to which it belongs. Other marks are traditional decorations. According to LIFE, many temples in southern India maintained elephants during this time. (Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #WorldElephantDay

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Tilda Swinton as Madame Blanc in Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Suspiria

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Infinity War 10 Day Countdown | Day 6: Favorite Male Character  Peter Parker / Spider-Man

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*Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017, dir. by Jon Watts)

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On April 14th, Kendrick Lamar (who won best rap album at the Grammys) released “DAMN.” It’s filled with contradictions, seesawing between supreme needs and animal wants, heroism and self-loathing, loose thrills and the possibility of eternal damnation. The songs are at odds with one another: “love.” is an ode to trust and commitment, backed by majestic, gliding synths; “lust.” is rash and hellish, as Lamar, over a drum loop played backward, raps about seeking the quick affirmation that comes from being desired. “element.” is Lamar at his most effortless and cocky, peering down from on high; it’s followed by “feel.,” which finds him nursing a chip on his shoulder, mind racing toward the conclusion that his insecurities may never fade. He begins recognizing his own sense of megalomaniacal paranoia: “I feel like this gotta be the feelin’ what Pac was / The feelin’ of an apocalypse happenin’.”

Read more. 

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Donald Glover Can’t Save You

The creator of “Atlanta” wants TV to tell hard truths. Is the audience ready?

As a boy, Donald Glover wanted to be a wedding planner. Instead, he has been a sketch comic; a standup comedian; a writer on “30 Rock”; an actor on “Community”; a d.j. named mc DJ; a musician known as Childish Gambino, who was nominated for five Grammys this year; and a budding movie star, who will appear as both Lando Calrissian in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” out in May, and Simba in a live-action version of “The Lion King.” “He can push the envelope in all these different areas,” Ryan Coogler, a friend of Glover’s, who wrote and directed “Black Panther,” said. “And it’s not that difficult for him.”

Read Tad Friend’s Profile of the “Atlanta” creator here. 

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(via Georgian House in Bath, England)